Linklaters, which announced in April salary cuts for starting lawyers and reduced salary increases, is now the UK’s largest firm by revenue, reporting income of £1.3 billion ($2.13 billion). But…
Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector: Linklaters has hired Robin Maxwell away from Goodwin Procter for its New York financial regulation group. She specializes in banking regulation and…
Linklaters is cutting pay for starting lawyers, and shrinking salary increases. The firm will pay new lawyers £61,500 ($91,300), down from £66,600 pounds in 2008. Associates will get salary increases…
Herbert Smith will launch a new office in Madrid, Spain with a group from Linklaters. Alvaro Sáinz, Miguel Riaño and Ignacio Paz were partners at Linklaters. Ignacio Díez-Picazo was a…
London’s Linklaters has pushed back its trainee start dates for September 2009 and March 2010, offering future trainees £10,000 to go away for one year. The firm will select 15…
An internal document leaked to the press reveals that DLA Piper lawyers in the UK are angry over the severance package being offered to redundant attorneys. The firm launched its…
Despite the fact that February 12th is still known as Black Thursday and generally considered the worst day for law firm layoffs since the economic meltdown began, the truth is…
Final details of Linklaters’ “New World” are starting to emerge, with 14 associates in the firm’s banking practice and 16 in corporate selected for redundancy. The firm started informing those…
Just a week after announcing mass layoffs, Linklaters is launching a formal redundancy consultation, with up to 120 lawyers and 150 business support staff in London expected to lose their…
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